Hooper v. Rhea

The bill in this case is filed by complainants, as citizens and taxpayers of tbe town of Newport, Oocke county, against defendants, to use tbe 'language of tbe bill, “as citizens of said town and proposed incorporators of Newport,” also tbe sheriff of Oocke county, together with tbe register of said county.

Tbe bill is in fact, on its face, a bill to- bave a charter, granted under the great seal of tbe state, by tbe secretary of state, and duly registered, as required by tbe acts of 1875 [ch. 92], as amended by tbe act of 1877 [ch. 121; Shannon’s Code, sec. 1881 et seq.], declared fraudulent,…